On Sun,3/13/2016 5:51 AM, Chuck Dietz wrote:
I am building a SAL-30 and was going to lay
about 600-800 feet of hamfest RG-6 on the ground. Now I ordered 1000' of
Commscope direct burial RG-6 on Ebay for $80 and will go to Home Depot and rent
a trencher for a day for $89.
YMMV. I installed two DXE reversible Beverages soon after I moved here
in 2006, and the coax to both is from a new reel I bought directly from
Commscope before I moved here to run MATV signals around my Chicago
home. It's good stuff, but not flooded, not intended for direct burial.
That coax is laying on the ground, except for a stretch where it spans a
deep gulley with a creek at the bottom of it. Those Beverages still work
fine (except when a branch or tree falls on them and breaks the
connection at either end). There's no way I could trench and bury most
of that path -- it's through a dense forest.
73, Jim K9YC
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